How To Create An OS X Mountain Lion Install USB Drive

Here's how to use a free utility, Lion Disk Maker, to create a boot drive for clean installations or emergency use on your Lion- or Mountain Lion-compatible Mac. Create a bootable USB thumb drive like we did, or a bootable DVD.

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The utility will erase everything on the thumb drive. If you need to get anything off it, do so before you click the "Erase then create the disk" button!

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